with the news that you just gave about the debt ceiling, it will make the fiscal cliff look are more like the fiscal grand canyon if leaders aren't able to fix what is about to happen in terms of tax rates going up for everybody as well as making sure that the country does not default on all of this. it's really ironic because if you look at where democrats were with these bush tax cuts a decade ago when i was at the democratic national committee as communications director, there was a visceral reaction against them. and now democrats want to extend these tax cuts for 98% of americans. republicans should just basically declare victory and go home. i mean, it's a little insane where we are right now. >> anna navarro, we've been talking in washington about the idea of so many democrats now supporting the bush tax cuts at least for people making less than $250,000. what's your take on that? >> my take is that it's beginning to look a the lot like quli cliff-mas. like most americans, i thought there was possible solution that could be reached before december 31st. it's looking less and l